There were birds in the sky, but I never saw them winging, No I never saw them at all, Until there was you.

Speaking of River City in The Music Man & his home town, Mason City, Iowa: I didn't have to make up anything. I simply remembered Mason City as closely as I could.

You pile up enough tomorrows and you'll be left with nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas; Soon the bells will start, And the thing that will make them ring Is the carol that you sing Right within your heart.

Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.

Where is the good in goodbye?

A man can't turn tail and run just because a little personal risk is involved. What did Shakespeare say? "Cowards die a thousand deaths, the brave man... only 500"?

The coward dies a thousand deaths — the brave man only 500.

I haven't seen Iowa people get so excited since the night Frank Gotch and Strangler Lewis lay on the mat for three and a half hours without moving a muscle.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, everywhere you go; Take a look in the five-and-ten, glistening once again. With candy canes and silver lanes aglow.

Harold Hill: You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering.

For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal.

To think is to have doubt....yet even thinking will bring you to "no thought"....eventually.

I would never judge someone's intrigue with the spoils of fame, because I went through that.

I think you can always find interesting, complex and fascinating characters to play in different kinds of movies. It's in your hands.

The best vacation is still a book, a renewable ticket to places real and imaginary.

Dream more, learn more, care more, and be more.

It's the occasion that makes the revolution.

The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.

How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.